That's right and it really bothers me that his parents have custody of the girls.
That was just a snapshot of one moment in time. I'm sensitive to those things and that particular photo didn't bother me at all.
If you saw the girls at the funeral and all the pix of them, the older smiles a lot and the younger is just more serious all the time. The way people talk about them who know them say their personalities are like that, too. They're very bright, according to teachers and friends.
Patricia heard the gunshot and came out of her room and down the hall - then asked Mary what had happened. She said daddy was sick and going to the hospital and that they were going to the beach.
She had withdrawn $500 at least twice the day before, yet had only $121 on her in Orange Beach. She said they stopped in Jackson, MS, on the way down, so maybe they spent the night there. Must have been an expensive hotel room.
Farese is trying to spin that she was a victim of the Nigerian internet scam - but the TBI agent said she was an active participant, opening three other bank accounts, one in her name only, with an expired license. I'm going to bet that it said "Carol Freeman," the name she went by in high school and college.
I'm not nearly as worried about the elder Winklers having the girls now as I was earlier. I was afraid it might be a rigid atmosphere, but maybe not.
I am sickened, though, that Mary got to see them last Sunday in jail. The Winklers "surprised" her by bringing them to visit, without telling big mouth media freak Farese they were coming (as if they were giving in to his vocal and publicized demands that Mary be allowed to see them). The last thing they needed was photographers.
Still, it had to be traumatic and the newspaper articles said it was. The girls cried about having to see their mom through a glass partition. Mary waved to the baby as one of the grandparents held her.
My hope is that the counselors had said it was OK in advance - that the time was right - maybe even that this was the best way, unannounced.
I just don't think Mary should get *anything* that could be considered any kind of "privilege." She left her husband to die, asking her "why" she shot him, just after he woke up to the alarm clock. She disconnected the phone from its cord, so he couldn't call for help! It was near him, with the phone line under his body.
All those people who want to let her come live with them and give her a job should look at all this - she was kiting checks, lying, stealing, and then she murdered her husband - and took the shotgun with her to the beach with the children!